Christine Vachon's Killer Life.

It's been almost ten years since I wrote my last book, Shooting to Kill, a nuts-and-bolts guide for first-time producers... As the head of Killer Films, an independent film production company based in New York, I've managed to endure longer than many colleagues and friends. This book is an attempt to explain why... Independent film has changed considerably in ten years. Killer Films has changed and will keep changing. But what is changing the most is the way people think about movies. For one, audiences are smarter, savvier... [A]s I get older, my autonomy means more and more to me. Outside is a good place for artists, and it's where I feel comfortable.... Audiences respond to that singularity of vision. Every now and then, people will recognize me on the street, and they'll say, "You made one of my favorite movies ever," and I never know which movie they're going to say: Safe, Happiness, One Hour Photo, Velvet Goldmine, Go Fish, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I love that. A lot of the movies Killer makes aren't loved by everybody - not even mostly everybody. But each one can be somebody's favorite movie because of its clarity of vision, because of the distinctiveness of what it's saying.

Posted by dwhudson at September 6, 2006 3:18 PM